A topic for posting quotes and small texts you like for some reason. They can be from a public figure you admire or from a fictional character. Maybe you find them truthful, inspirational or whatever. Anyway, you get the idea.

“Not being tense but ready.Not thinking but not dreaming.Not being set but flexible.Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread. The entirety of this speech made an impact, especially considering the mess the world was in the week it aired, but this is the bit that really stood out:-

"Because it's not a game, Kate. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die. You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning -- sit down and talk! Listen to me, listen. I just -- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind." ~ The 12th Doctor, Zygon Inversion

"Machines can make laws, but they cannot preserve justice. Only human beings can do that."-First Doctor, "The Keys of Marinus"

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."- Second Doctor, "The Wheel in Space"

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."-Third Doctor, "The Time Warrior"

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't change their views to fit the facts; they change the facts to fit their views."-Fourth Doctor, "The Face of Evil"

"For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about."-Fifth Doctor, "Earthshock"

"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."-Sixth Doctor, "The Mysterious Planet"

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."-Seventh Doctor, "Survival"

"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."-War Doctor, "The Day of the Doctor"

"The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me?"-Ninth Doctor, "The Long Game"

"People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but, actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly...timey-wimey...stuff."-Tenth Doctor, "Blink"

"We all change. When you think about it, we're all different people all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be."-Eleventh Doctor, "The Time of the Doctor"

"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: Sit down and talk!"-Twelfth Doctor, "The Zygon Inversion"

In case you couldn't tell, I really like Doctor Who.

Rule number one of lawyer stuff: if it's in the court record, it's gonna show up in the trial.

"Don't compare yourself with anyone else in this world...if you do so you are insulting yourself." -Bill Gates

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has it's own reason for existing. Anyone who has never made a misteak has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

"Courage isn't a matter of not being frightened. You know it's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway." -John Pertwee (The 3rd Doctor)

"Machines can make laws, but they cannot preserve justice. Only human beings can do that."-First Doctor, "The Keys of Marinus"

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."- Second Doctor, "The Wheel in Space"

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."-Third Doctor, "The Time Warrior"

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't change their views to fit the facts; they change the facts to fit their views."-Fourth Doctor, "The Face of Evil"

"For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about."-Fifth Doctor, "Earthshock"

"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."-Sixth Doctor, "The Mysterious Planet"

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."-Seventh Doctor, "Survival"

"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."-War Doctor, "The Day of the Doctor"

"The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me?"-Ninth Doctor, "The Long Game"

"People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but, actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly...timey-wimey...stuff."-Tenth Doctor, "Blink"

"We all change. When you think about it, we're all different people all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be."-Eleventh Doctor, "The Time of the Doctor"

"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: Sit down and talk!"-Twelfth Doctor, "The Zygon Inversion"

In case you couldn't tell, I really like Doctor Who.

I love doctor who too. So much so that I made my own timelord OC, The Mechanic! Personally my favorite doctor is a tie between 2nd, 4th, and 5th. I basically think all the doctors are good. My favorite Doctor Who quote is the 3rd Doctor's one about courage. Another favorite of mine is The 11th Doctor's Rings of Akhatan speech.

This was part of a speech Diana Ross gave during a concert in Tokyo in 1978.

"When I was in elementary school, I had an incredible teacher who told me what she thought the grade 'C' meant: Cheat. For those that would do half when all is called for, for them who slip and slide through life at the edge of their minds, never once pushing into the interior to find out what wonders were hiding there. Being content to drift along on whatever gets them by. Cheating themselves, cheating the world and cheating nature."

Oh god,I just remembered something very embarrassing. It was when I was but a freshman in high school. We were doing biology,and were talking about rabies and how humans can infect others with it. Then:

Ardyn said those words. I don't necessarily like the quote itself, but rather who says it. Ardyn is such an awesome character with an equally magnificent voice. But if I were to draw out some sort of significance from that specific quote, I would say that a person is more than the title they hold. It's like saying that someone is competent because they're the CEO of the company, when in reality, they're a bloody mess.

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